If you know me, then you know I’m a huge fan of over-the-top games that embrace a certain spirit of levity. So when developer Ratloop recently invited me to try out their upcoming poultry-based 2D shooter Rocketbirds 2: Evolution, I jumped at the opportunity to take on the role

We got a personal tour of the Kingston booth at PAX South and two headsets caught our eyes (or more accurately, our ears).  The first one was the HyperX Cloud II for PlayStation 4 and PC.  Sporting 53mm drivers and noise cancelleing, the headset rocks 7.1 surround sound.  It

The year is 2035, and today we mark the 20th year anniversary of our liberation from Self. Advent soldiers keep our beautiful cities bright and clean from those who would reject the helping hand offered to us by our alien benefactors. As we stand here in New Providence, under its

Fortified!, a 1960’s sci-fi themed tower defense game made by Clapfoot, is at its essence a balancing act. A capable third-person shooter combined with the strategy of placing defensive structures, both between and during waves of Martian invaders, works quite well but it isn’t all good news. Our

We’ve seen a lot of Mario crossovers over the years, but Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam takes a very unique approach by crossing Mario, with, well…Mario. The Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi series are both known for their RPG mechanics, so Paper Jam attempts to combine the

Last year Grey Box injected fresh blood into a stagnant RTS genre with the visually stunning Grey Goo. One year and two high stakes tournaments later they chose to celebrate the title’s birthday with the free expansion ‘Descent of the Shroud’, adding a considerable amount of new content not

Here’s an honest confession: I try to avoid making appointments for the same game two shows in a row. It becomes a little odd to play through the same bits of game again, with the same people, only months or sometimes weeks apart. You know all the motions, the

Laura stumbled on a prototype game that caught her eye at PAX South in San Antonio.  The game, Zombie Tower 3D, is already a hit in Japan, but this Summer the developers are going to take a shot at bringing it to North American shores.   We sat down with developers